Murdoch battles 'content kleptomaniacs' in Beijing

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News Corp. head, Rupert Murdoch, has again spoken out against free news content on the web, now calling search engines such as Google and Yahoo “content kleptomaniacs”.

Murdoch was speaking at the World Media Summit in Beijing and promised that “the aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay the price for the co-opting of our content”, while other News Corp executives have called search engines “vampires” and “tapeworms” the Independent reports.